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PR Summary by QodoAdd timeouts to Docker test jobs
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughFive GitHub Actions workflows now set job or setup-step timeouts. Build jobs have 30- or 45-minute limits, and selected setup steps have 10-minute limits. Other job timeouts range from 1 to 20 minutes. ChangesGitHub Actions timeouts
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Other Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Slow build runs can time out before their configured Docker-bake retries finish, potentially failing image builds and holding up the merge queue. Increase the job limits or align the retry budget before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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1. Language tests lose their final retries
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| # two bakes (base from the cache, then the tests) with up to 3 attempts each | ||
| timeout-minutes: 45 |
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1. Language tests lose their final retries 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
The lang job permits two bake steps under a 45-minute timeout, while the base and distro jobs permit individual bakes under 30-minute timeouts even though each bake can use three 10-minute attempts and 60-second retry waits. Slow or transient Docker failures can therefore exhaust the configured retry budgets, causing GitHub to cancel the jobs before the bakes finish and turning recoverable failures into CI failures.
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## Issue description
The `lang` job's 45-minute timeout is shorter than the roughly 64-minute maximum for its two `bake` invocations, and the `base` and `distro` jobs' 30-minute timeouts are shorter than the more than 32 minutes required by one bake with three 10-minute attempts and two 60-second retry waits. Slow or transient Docker failures can therefore be cancelled before the configured retry policies complete.
## Fix Focus Areas
- .github/workflows/build.yml[221-221]
- .github/workflows/build.yml[268-268]
- .github/workflows/build.yml[361-362]
- .github/workflows/build.yml[422-442]
- .github/actions/bake/action.yml[15-25]
## Recommended Fix
Increase the `base`, `distro`, and `lang` job timeouts enough to cover their complete bake retry budgets and normal setup, cleanup, and other job overhead, or reduce the per-attempt timeout and retry settings so the intended retry behavior fits within each job's timeout.
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- Around line 367-368: Increase the timeout-minutes values for the base, distro,
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| # two bakes (base from the cache, then the tests) with up to 3 attempts each | ||
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git diff --unified=3 e5ff8145d81146eb62032d0bc4ea4948279dbbf3 3d52a53f25c6ef850587f8e9f295d77f341b8014 -- .github/workflows/build.yml .github/actions/bake/action.ymlRepository: containerbase/base
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nick-fields/retry GitHub Action timeout_minutes per attempt max_attempts retry_wait_seconds documentation
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`nick-fields/retry` documents these inputs:
- `timeout_minutes`: timeout **for each attempt**; use either this or `timeout_seconds`, not both.
- `max_attempts`: total number of attempts before the step fails.
- `retry_wait_seconds`: delay before the next retry; optional, defaults to **10 seconds**. ([github.com](https://github.com/nick-fields/retry?utm_source=openai))
```yaml
- uses: nick-fields/retry@v3
with:
timeout_minutes: 10
max_attempts: 3
retry_wait_seconds: 20
command: npm run some-script
```
The README’s example confirms the timeout and attempt-count usage; the input implementation confirms the wait default and that the timeout is converted for an attempt. ([github.com](https://github.com/nick-fields/retry?utm_source=openai))
Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/nick-fields/retry?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://github.com/nick-fields/retry?utm_source=openai
Increase the job timeouts to cover all configured bake attempts.
nick-fields/retry applies its 10-minute timeout to each attempt. One bake can therefore use 32 minutes: three 10-minute attempts and two 60-second waits. The base and distro jobs can exceed their 30-minute caps, and lang runs two sequential bakes that can use 64 minutes before setup and other steps. The job timeout can cancel these retries before max_attempts: 3 is exhausted.
Set each job timeout above its complete retry budget plus the preceding steps.
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/build.yml around lines 367 - 368:
Increase the timeout-minutes values for the base, distro, and lang jobs to
exceed their full configured bake-retry budgets plus preceding setup steps, so
job cancellation does not interrupt retries before max_attempts is exhausted.
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Adds a timeout to every job that had none, so a hung job no longer runs into GitHub's 6 hour limit:
build:baseanddistro30 minutes (one bake, likebase-arm64),lang45 minutes (two bakes, each with up to 3 attempts)devcontainer: 20 minutes,trivy: 15 minutesauto-pr:debug1,review5 andbackport10 minutes; merge queue cancel job 5 minutesbase,distro,base-arm64,lang): 10 minutes, so a hang there fails fast instead of waiting for the job timeoutA hung squid-deb-proxy setup kept a
distrojob running for 45 minutes and blocked the merge queue until it was cancelled by hand. The limits are well above the usual run times (longest docker test job about 8 minutes with a warm cache), so they only catch hangs.Context
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